Appliance for isolating match-sticks.



PATENTED APR.'12, 19 4.

, .r. GZERWENY'.

" APPLIANCE FOR ISOLATING MATCH STICKS.

IPPLIGA'IIOH FILED KAY 27, 1902.

no 101mm I UNITED STATE Patented. April 12, 1004.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANZ ozERWE Y, OF DEUTSGHLANDSBERG, NEAR eRATz, AUsTR1A- I HUNGARY.

' APPLIANCE FOR ISOLATING MATCH-STICKS.

'srncfrzcnrron forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,180, dated April 12, 1904.

Application filed Kay 27, 1502. Serial lio- 109,190. (No model.)

To all uihont may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANZ CZERWENY, manufacturer, of Deutschlandsberg, near Grata, Styna, Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new'and useful Improvements in Appliances for Isolating Match-Sticks, of which the following is a' specification.

My invention relates to match-making machiner'y, and particularly to apparatus in'such machinery for receiving match-sticks from a hopper or other receptacle, isolating them,

and feeding them either to the carrier-belt of an automatic match-making machine or to a dipping-frame or other device adapted to receive such sticks.

In one class of match-maklng machlnes as at present existing aplate is provided havinggrooves into which the match-sticks fall and from which they are afterward ejected into the carrier-belt or other devices adapted to receive them. After the match-sticks are ejected from-the grooves splintersorother foreign tion, combination, and arrangement of devices matter sometimes remain therein,- and it is therefore necessary to clean sald grooves by hand from time to time, as required. 1 'One of the principal objects of my invention is to provide means for, automatically cleaning said grooves, which, with other features of the invention, are hereinafter more particularly described.

The nventlon consists of the novel construcand parts hereinafter more particularly set forth.

ring being the same in all cases.

tion, showing di fierentpositions of the parts,

Fig. 1 indicatingthe position at the beginning,

theaccompany- I 2 during, and Fig-.3 directly after the operation of pushing the sticks into position. Fig. 4-is a plan of Fig. 2. 1

a is the grooved plate below the stick-hopper 6. Its grooves or flutes receive the matches a, which are; ejected by the needles (2, into the holes f of the carrier-belt g while it is at rest. The needles d are at their rear ends bent upwardand passed through holes in a bar 6', which extends across the plate a and when in its normal position or being moved forward engages .a shoulder e" at the rear ocf the plate.

Attached, respectively, to the gr'ooved plate a and the connected adjustable carrier-bar e for the needles (1 are levers k a, the other end vided witha stud j k, respectively, the one, j, engaging with an eccentric slot Z, while the other, k, stands in the path of a cam m, mounted: on a rotating disk n.

At the beginning of the charging movement of same being preferably articulated, reSpec- 'ti-vely, onto the lower frame of the machine or "to some suitable point. Each lever is prothe parts are in the positions shown in Fig. 1,

the ejecting-needles leaving the grooves free,

so that the lowermost sticks in the hopper can fall into the grooves. .This .done, the plate a is moved forward by the lever h as far as the carrier-belt g. This movement is shared by the needles d, which shortly before the grooved plate a attains the outermost limit of its course, Fig. 2, push the match-sticks forward and press them into the carrier-belt. When freed plate is quickly withdrawn, so as not to hinder the downward movement of theicarrierbelt, while the needles d, as seen in Fig. 3, remain inposition, and thus clean the forward portion .of the grooves (previously occupied by the sticks) from splinters and the like. This accomplished, the needles d are withdrawn 1,,so that the next layer of match-sticks can fall into the grooves. and'be forced into the next empty row of holes in the carrier-belt; Finally, to enable cross-lying sticks or splinters and the like to drop out of the matchfrom its charge of match-sticks, the grooved The improved appliance may be used for in--' by the lever '21 into their original position, Fig. i

hopper a suitable "gap is left between the front wall of the hopper Z2 and the grooved plate a.

. 'Having now particularly described and asv certained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same' is to be performed, I declare that what I claim.is-- v 1. In a match-making machine, the combination with a grooved plate for receiving the matehsticks and means for reciprocating said plate, a series of needles supported by the plate-- and sliding in the grooves thereof, and means carried by the plate for causing a forward movement of the needles," of devices adapted to receive said match-sticks when the forward movement of the plate and needles is com- .pleted, and means adapted to return the needles to their normal positions after the grooved plate has receded in order to clear the grooves of splinters and. the like, and to leave the grooves open to receive a further supply of match-sticks.

2. In a match-makingmachine, the combination with a reciprocating grooved plate having a shoulder, of means for reciprocating the plate, a laterally-disposed bar adapted to be engaged by the shoulder and carried with the grooved plate in its forward movement, a series of needlescarried by the lateral bar slid-v ing inthe grooves of theplate and adapted to be left at their extreme forward position when the plate recedes and means independent of the movement of the plate for returning the bar and its needles to their normal position;

3. In a match-making machine,the combination with areceptacle for holding matchsticks, a grooved-reciprocating plate under the receptacle and adapted to receive into its grooves match-sticks from said receptacle, means for reciprocating the plate, a series of needles .sliding in the grooves of the plate andhaving --.a reciprocating plate beneath the receptacle and having grooves .to temporarily contain the match sticks, means for reciprocating the plate, a series of needles carried in the grooves back of the match-sticks and moving forward I with the plate to force the sticks into the receiving devices and remaining in their forward position while the grooved plate returns, and

means for returning the needles to their normal positions at the rear ends ofthe grooves and clearing the grooves of splinters and chips.

5. In a match-making machine, the combination with a receptacle for holding match-sticks, of devices adapted to receive the sticks, a reciprocating plate with longitudinal grooves to carry the matches and a shoulder, a lateral bar normally engaged by the shoulder, a series of needles carried by the bar and playing in the grooves of the plate but normally retained in the rear ends of said grooves, means for mov- 'ing the plate with the match-sticks and the bar with the needles toward the devices to receive the sticks and receding the plate and means for returning the bar and needles to their normal positions after the recession of the grooved plate.

, 6. In amatch-making machine, the combina tion with a receptacle for holding match-sticks, of devices adapted to receive the sticks, a

j grooved reciprocating plate adapted to hold thesticks and carry them to the receiving devices, means for reciprocating the plate, a

lateral bar having needles adapted to play in grooves back of the'sticks', be carried forward by the grooved plate, force the sticks into the receiving devices, prevent the entrance of sticks into the grooves until the return of the needles to their normal positions in the back of the grooves and clear the grooves'of chips,

splinters-and the likeon their return movement, and means for returning the bar and needles to their normal position after the rec'iprocation of the grooved plate.

7. In a match-making machine, the combination with a receptacle for holding the match sticks, of devices for receiving the sticks, a reciprocating grooved plate adapted to carry the sticks from the holder to the receiver,

needles carried by a common bar, playing in the grooves and adapted to force the sticks into'the receiving devices, a lever actuating the grooved plate, a cam operating the lever in its forward and backward movement, a-

lever connected with the needle-bar and adapt: ed to return the needles to their normal pos1- tions after the recession of the grooved bar and a cam adapted to operate the latter lever v to return the needle-bar.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed myname, this14th dayof May, 1902, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, FRANZ CZERWENY. Witnesses:

J OHANN FLo'rH,

ALVESTO S. HOGUE. 

